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Letter from the (Vice) President:
I’m honored to greet you this month as we begin the busy summer season! We have entered 72 days of non-stop daylight; time to celebrate what keeps us in Fairbanks. The other thing that has kept me here for almost half a century is the vibrant arts community. Summer is the perfect time to participate in all the opportunities Fairbanks has to offer.
None are more exciting than our own classes, events and exhibits. We just celebrated the annual Tiny Book Party, attended by 27 book artists and guests. The addition this year of guest artists Bev Byington and Sandra Westcott, who shared their work in lettering was a great start to the ABC Challenge, an opportunity to create individual work based on an alphabet or join a group project to make an “alphabet quilt”.
Workshops this month include Vanessa’s Zine class and Sandra’s Zentangle class. If you’ve never made a “Zine”-(a self published mini magazine) you will be totally inspired to create several in this class. Sandra’s Zentangle class will be a further dive into the Zentangle method of pen and ink drawing, lettering, and design. Both of these classes still have spaces available and are a great way to have fun and learn something new this summer.
NBG exhibits start with the FAAM show “Contemporary Meets Vintage”, a collaboration between our Guild and the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum on Thursday June 6, from 5:30-7:30pm at the museum. A catalog of the show will be available for sale and the show will be up all month, so bring your guests to this must-see Fairbanks destination and introduce them to book arts. This event is one of the many ways our Guild partners with other groups in the community.
The NBG June 20th Program Meeting will also take place at the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum and will feature artist talks by those who created works for the "Contemporary Meets Vintage" exhibition. Due to space limitations this meeting will be for NBG members only, and require a reservation to attend. You will receive a special email with details a week before the meeting. Save the date: Thursday, June 20, 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Other great summer events include the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in July, the Farmer’s Market and the Tanana Valley State Fair in August. The fair is another opportunity to enter your book arts creations.
Finally, summer is a relaxing time to create books for our upcoming show at 2 Street Gallery in October. Oralee is heading up this event and will provide information throughout the summer. Don’t forget Open Studios on Wednesdays this summer. Hang out with fellow book artists, visit the Paper Birches store and create work for upcoming shows.
Laurel Herbeck
NBG Vice President
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Northwoods Book Arts Guild
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Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
Contemporary Meets Vintage:
Book Artists Respond
An Exhibit of Artist Books
Inspired by the Museum Collection
Opening June 6
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
212 Wedgewood Drive
No Charge for NBG Members to Attend Opening
Admission for Non-members: $10
Exhibition Catalog $20
Exhibition Open June 6 - July 6, 2024 11am-5pm
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Northwoods Book Arts Guild
Program Meeting
June 20 , 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
*** Attendees must be current NBG members ***
Attendance limited to 40 members, registration required
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Northwoods Book Arts Guild
ABC Challenge
Inspired by Robert Bolick’s ABC book collection, NBG members are invited to make their own alphabet-themed books. Any structure/format/medium related to book arts is welcome! This will be a slow paced, stress-free project that will culminate as a display in the BOOKS AS ART 4 exhibition at the Bear Gallery taking place in June 2025.
To check out Robert’s blog, visit http://books-on-books.com
All members of NBG are invited to sign up for this challenge! There is no fee to
participate, and we will hold optional meet ups (virtual or in-person) to discuss
ideas and share our progress. To join this fun and exciting new challenge email Ashley.
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NBG Workshop
Zines! Zines! Zines!
Instructor: Vanessa DeWolf
Saturday, June 15, 1-4pm
Workshop Fees: Members $45, Guests $60
Materials Fee: $5
Workshop Limit: 6 participants
Fleckland Studio (at Well Street Art Co)
Working with scissors, tape, gluesticks, paper, pencils, pens, collage materials and our imaginations we'll make many zines in the course of the afternoon. We'll be working in black & white (grayscale). Vanessa will have both her scanner and laser printer for our use. She will guide exercises for writing, drawing, mark-making and collaging. This class is spontaneous, easy-breasy, no expertise is needed. There will be a combination of group, collaborative activity and independent, self-directed activity with lots of discussion, brainstorming, and generating. Vanessa intends to give you lots of processes for initiating content and making zines. For the last half hour we'll look at places you can submit your zines, zinefests to go to, and places you can trade/buy and find zines.
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NBG Workshop
Bands, Borders and Botanicals
Instructor: Sandra Westcott
Saturday, June 29th, 1-4pm
Workshop Fees: Members $45, Guests $60
Materials fee: $12
Workshop Limit: 8 participants
A blank page can be intimidating, but a lightly embellished page is an invitation. Learn how to add border and corner embellishments to your book pages. Using the Zentangle method of drawing patterned images, it’s easy to learn how to create beautiful ornamentation lines.
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NBG Exhibition
2 Street Gallery Featured Artist
for the Month of October
Call for Participation!
2 Street Gallery in downtown Fairbanks has invited the Northwoods Book Arts Guild to be their Featured Artist for the month of October 2024! All current NBG members are invited to display and sell new and original artist books or artist book related items at the gallery for the duration of the show. Work includes but is not limited to handmade books, journals, cards, letterpress creations, or handmade tools associated with artist book making. All artwork must be for sale (with 40% of the sale going to 2 Street Gallery as a consignment fee).
Submissions will be collected in September, however we will need several pieces completed by July 6th to photograph for advertising the event. Please email Oralee Nudson if you have questions about the exhibit or have finished work ready for photographing.
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Tanana Valley State Fair
Invitation to Participate!
2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tanana Valley State Fair. The theme this year is “Thank you For Bee-ing A Friend” . The fair is an opportunity for community members to showcase their creations. Corlis Taylor, NBG President, along with NBG member Coleen Turner would like to invite NBG members to enter a poem or handmade book in the fair exhibits. NBG has many creative writers in our group and there are opportunities in the creative writing division. In the Division of Creative Arts, Class K - Nature Inspired Art - a Flitch book or specimen book would qualify. The Class L Paper Craft – Lot 9 Hand made paper or lot 10 "Other" - would be an opportunity to enter your book with a paper cover.
Learn more on the TVSF website or pick up a TVSF Exhibit Guides available at the NBG Studio.
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THANK YOU!
A big Thank You to everyone that participated in the 3rd Annual Tiny Book Party and all of the wonderful volunteers that made it a success. We are already looking forward to next year's event!
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UA Museum of the North
Thinking Made Visible Exhibit
Open through Sunday, January 5, 2025
Thinking Made Visible is a UAMN special exhibition exploring the human instinct to express thought through line, form, and color. It is an immersion in possibility and process – honoring and encouraging the practice of slowing down and spending time with an idea, an object, a place.
Perception, communication, and invention are explored through nature journals and cartoons, maps and scientific fieldnotes, architectural, art, and exhibit design – memory and sensory experience given form by the humble sketchbook.
Members of NBG have participated in the planning of this exciting exhibition. Look for NBG book artists in the show!
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Join the American Bookbinders Museum in a conversation with panelists Elizabeth Curren, Sara Press (Deeply Game Publications), and Rebecca Chamlee (Pie in the Sky Press). We will discuss a variety of ways nature influences bookbinding. Ranging from the integration of natural materials such as bones and leaves to taking inspiration from nature in design elements like pattern and form. Learn about their process in more on
Saturday, June 15th at 11:00 am PST.
$10 per attendee, registration
All webinars are recorded with a recording sent to ticket holders following the event.
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Focus on Book Arts
June 26 - 30, 2024
Monmouth, Oregon
Focus on Book Arts is a conference of book and paper arts in Monmouth, Oregon. FOBA offers five days of workshops, along with a Trade Show, Artists’ Fair, Faculty-Staff Exhibition, and several evening events. Workshops are taught by professional instructors in bookbinding, printing, decorative papers, paper making, book art, and more.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
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NORTHWOODS BOOK ARTS GUILD
CALENDAR
NBG Open Studio &
Boreal Book Arts Showcase Hours
Wednesdays, 12-2pm
NBG Exhibit
Contemporary Meets Vintage
Thursday June 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
NBG Activity
Coptic Binders Meet Up
Thursday, June 13, 4-6pm
NBG Workshop
Zines! Zines! Zines!
Saturday June 15, 1-4pm
NBG Program Meeting
Thursday, June 20, 5:30-7pm
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
NBG Workshop
Bands, Borders and Botanicals
Saturday, June 29, 1-4pm
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Learn about and support Northwoods Book Arts Guild!
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